US5038472A - Pivoting safety razor assembly - Google Patents

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US5038472A
US5038472A US07/438,824 US43882489A US5038472A US 5038472 A US5038472 A US 5038472A US 43882489 A US43882489 A US 43882489A US 5038472 A US5038472 A US 5038472A
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Priority to EP90311455A priority patent/EP0429174B1/en
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B21/00—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B21/00—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
    • B26B21/40—Details or accessories
    • B26B21/52—Handles, e.g. tiltable, flexible
    • B26B21/521—Connection details, e.g. connection to razor heads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B21/00—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
    • B26B21/08—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor involving changeable blades
    • B26B21/14—Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle
    • B26B21/22—Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle involving several blades to be used simultaneously
    • B26B21/222—Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle involving several blades to be used simultaneously with the blades moulded into, or attached to, a changeable unit
    • B26B21/225—Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle involving several blades to be used simultaneously with the blades moulded into, or attached to, a changeable unit the changeable unit being resiliently mounted on the handle

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  • the present invention pertains to safety razors. More particularly, the present invention pertains to shaving apparatus which incorporate pivotable blade assemblies. The present invention is particularly, but not exclusively, useful for shaving body hair.
  • the present invention recognizes the need to significantly reduce blade chatter. Therefore, the present invention provides a pivoting safety razor assembly which produces a smoother, closer, more comfortable shave by shifting the axis of rotation of the entire assembly to the blade cutting edge. Further, the present invention provides a pivoting safety razor assembly which minimizes any translational relative motion between the blade cutting edge and the blade assembly. Still further, the present invention provides a pivoting safety razor assembly that achieves the foregoing results by limiting relative motion of the assembly to rotation about the blade cutting edge, thereby providing a highly responsive shaving system. Additionally, the present invention provides a pivoting safety razor assembly which is easy to use, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and comparatively cost effective.
  • a preferred embodiment of the novel pivotable safety razor assembly includes a blade device, a handle, and two corrugated flexures connecting the handle to the blade device.
  • the blade device comprises a cartridge for fixedly holding at least one razor blade, the cartridge being mounted on the assembly in a fixed relationship with the flexures.
  • the flexures of the present invention are angled relative to each other, such that their respective planes intersect in a line at the cutting edge of the blades. This is done in order to provide for substantially pure rotational movement of the handle about the cutting edge.
  • the flexure design of the present invention minimizes translational movement of the handle relative to the cutting edge of the blade on the surface to be shaved.
  • the rotational motion of the handle about the cutting edge also needs to be somewhat limited.
  • one end of a rigid guide pin is fixedly attached to the blade device, and its other end is slidably engaged with the handle to mechanically limit rotational movement between the handle and the blade device.
  • Rotational movement between the handle and the blade can also be accomplished by eliminating the guide pin and, instead, incorporating a rigid wedge-shaped abutment which extends from the handle between the flexures.
  • an effective cutting edge is established substantially midway between the twin blades. This effective cutting edge functions in all important respects as does the actual cutting edge of a single blade.
  • FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the pivot razor assembly showing the blade device separated from the handle;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of the pivot razor assembly as seen along the line 2--2 in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of an alternate embodiment of the pivot razor assembly as would be seen along the line 2--2 in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a representative side cross-sectional view of a flexure of the pivot razor assembly.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the pivot razor assembly according to the present invention which is generally designated 10.
  • the assembly 10 comprises a handle 12, a flexible member 14 and a mounting flange 16 to which a blade device 18 can be engaged.
  • the handle 12 is an essentially rigid component of the assembly 10 and can be made of any appropriate material such as metal or plastic.
  • flexible member 14 comprises a pair of flexures 20 and 22 which define planes that are angled with respect to each other.
  • Flexure 20 is preferably corrugated and is bendable about an axis that is substantially parallel to the directional orientation of the individual corrugations. Flexure 20, however, is sufficiently stiff to substantially minimize or effectively prevent bending or flexing of the flexure 20 about axes which are substantially perpendicular to the directional orientation of the corrugations.
  • the corrugations of flexure 20 can be of any suitable geometry. For the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, these corrugations are generally rectangular. On the other hand, for the alternate embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the corrugations are rounded.
  • flexure 22 is similar to flexure 20 and, preferably, both flexures 20 and 22 are made of a plastic material such as an acetal.
  • Flexures 20 and 22 interconnect handle 12 with mounting flange 16 and are respectively connected to these components in any suitable manner well known in the pertinent art.
  • a clamp 24 is fastened onto handle 12 by a screw 26, with end 28 of flexure 20 fixedly held between the clamp 24 and the handle 12.
  • clamp 30 fixedly holds end 32 of flexure 20 on the wedge-shaped extensions 34 of mounting flange 16.
  • Flexure 22 of flexible member 14, like flexure 20 is attached to both handle 12 and extension 34. When so attached, flexure 22 is oriented to establish an angled relationship with flexure 20.
  • the angle 62 between flexures 20 and 22 may theoretically be anywhere in the range of 0°-180°.
  • the present invention envisions an angle 62 in the 20°-40° range.
  • vertex 64 of angle 62 coincides with an effective cutting edge 66, which is substantially midway between actual cutting edges 44 and 46 of blades 40 and 42, respectively.
  • blades 40 and 42 may be replaced by a single blade without materially affecting the operation of the flexible razor design. In such a case, the effective cutting edge 66 will coincide with the actual cutting edge of the single blade.
  • vertex 64 on effective cutting edge 66 is important.
  • the resulting pivot point of the entire assembly 10 is at the effective cutting edge 66 of the blade 40, or blades 40 and 42.
  • substantially all of the relative motion between effective cutting edge 66 and blade assembly 10 includes rotational motion and none of the relative motion is purely translational.
  • a rigid guide pin 36 extends between flexures 20 and 22, and is fixedly attached to wedge extension 34 by any means well known in the pertinent art.
  • Guide pin 36 may be constructed of any suitable material which has the characteristics of rigidity coupled with sufficient strength in the shear and axial directions to withstand forces produced when guide pin 36 operates to limit flexion of flexible member 14.
  • guide pin 36 extends into guide slot 38 of handle 12.
  • Guide slot 38 must be of sufficient depth to contain guide pin 36 while permitting slidable movement of guide pin 36 in the directions indicated by arrow 68 in FIG. 2.
  • the dimension of guide slot 38 establishes the limits of flexion of flexures 20 and 22. As seen in FIG. 2, the movement of flexures 20 and 22 is limited in one direction of flexion when guide pin 36 abuts upper guide slot limit 48, and in the other direction of flexion when pin 36 abuts lower guide slot limit 50. Although a range of flexion angles defined by the vertical dimension of guide slot 38 may be suitable to achieve the desired result, the preferred embodiment envisions an optimum flexion range of about plus or minus ten degrees (10°) in either direction.
  • a fixed wedge-shaped abutment 70 is provided which extends from handle 12 between the flexures 20, 22 as substantially shown in FIG. 3. Specifically, surface 72 of abutment 70 contacts flexure 20 to limit rotation of handle 12 in one direction about the effective cutting edge 66 while surface 74 of abutment 70 contacts flexure 22 to limit counterrotation of handle 12 in the other direction about the effective cutting edge 66.
  • the variables of interest are thickness of the flexure (t), width of a corrugation (w), and height of a corrugation (h).
  • the material qualities of flexure 20 are also important, but once a given material is selected, it is the variables t, w, and h which determine the response of flexure 20.
  • the aspect ratio of flexure 20 is h/w. With this in mind, it happens that for high aspect ratios, i.e.
  • the pivot razor assembly 10 is very compliant. This compliance, however, is achieved by compromising good shaving qualities.
  • t must be reduced to achieve sufficient bending of the flexure 20.
  • the aspect ratio h/w for flexures 20 and 22 is preferably in the range between one fourth and three fourths (i.e. 0.75 ⁇ h/w ⁇ 0.25).
  • blade device 18 may be fixedly mounted to flexible member 14 in any manner well known in the art.
  • flange 16 interconnects flexible member 14 and blade device 18.
  • blade device 18 is formed with a groove 52 that is defined by lips 54 and 56.
  • Flange 16 is slidably attached to blade device 18 by fitting flange 16 snuggly inside groove 52.
  • Lips 54 and 56 are constructed with a tolerance which facilitates the sliding of flange 16 into groove 52, yet which is tight enough to hold blade device 18 onto flange 16 during the assembly operation by effecting an interference fit between edges 58 and 60 and the inner surfaces of lips 54 and 56, respectively.
  • blade device 18 may contain one (1) or more blades and may be constructed of any known material having sufficient strength to contain blades 40 and 42.
  • the preferred embodiment envisions a blade device 18 constructed of polystyrene.
  • razor assembly 10 In its operation, razor assembly 10 is manually operated by grasping handle 12 and effecting skin contact with blades 40 and 42. The assembly 10 is then moved in short strokes across the surface to be shaved. As such strokes are performed, friction between the shaved surface and blades 40 and 42 produces a moment on assembly 10. The resulting torque flexes flexures 20 and 22, permitting blades 40 and 42 to rotate to conform to the shave surface in proportion to the moment exerted by the shaver. As the shaver applies this moment, flexures 20 and 22 flex to a point where resulting tensile and compressive forces on flexures 20 and 22 equal and cancel the friction-induced torque produced by the moment.
  • Flexures 20 and 22 remain flexed in steady state until the shave stroke (and hence friction-induced torque) is altered. Note that if the friction-induced torque produced by the moment is great enough, guide pin 36 will be forced into upper limit 48 or lower limit 50, as appropriate, of guide slot 38.
  • the travel of flexures 20 and 22 is limited by contact with the abutment 70. In either case, flexion of flexures 20 and 22 is thereby limited, as excess friction-induced torque not counteracted by the tensile and compressive forces associated with flexure 20 and 22 is mechanically cancelled. When the moment which produced the friction-induced torque is removed, flexures 20 and 22 return to their neutral angle position.

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AR88317995A AR244587A1 (es) 1989-11-17 1988-10-02 Conjunto afeitador de seguridad movible angularmente
US07/438,824 US5038472A (en) 1989-11-17 1989-11-17 Pivoting safety razor assembly
CA002025402A CA2025402C (en) 1989-11-17 1990-09-14 Pivoting safety razor assembly
AU63816/90A AU642910B2 (en) 1989-11-17 1990-10-05 Pivoting safety razor assembly
IL95908A IL95908A (en) 1989-11-17 1990-10-05 Pivoting safety razor assembly
AT90311455T ATE122951T1 (de) 1989-11-17 1990-10-18 Schwingkopf-sicherheitsrasierer.
DE69019680T DE69019680T2 (de) 1989-11-17 1990-10-18 Schwingkopf-Sicherheitsrasierer.
ES90311455T ES2074543T3 (es) 1989-11-17 1990-10-18 Ensamblado de una maquinilla giratoria con proteccion.
EP90311455A EP0429174B1 (en) 1989-11-17 1990-10-18 Pivoting safety razor assembly
ZA908437A ZA908437B (en) 1989-11-17 1990-10-22 Pivoting safety razor assembly
MX023197A MX171245B (es) 1989-11-17 1990-11-06 Conjunto de navaja de afeitar de seguridad de pivote
JP2302317A JP2858935B2 (ja) 1989-11-17 1990-11-07 枢動かみそり組立体
KR1019900018162A KR0158690B1 (ko) 1989-11-17 1990-11-10 피보트 안전면도기 조립체
PT95916A PT95916A (pt) 1989-11-17 1990-11-16 Conjunto de maquina de barbear oscilante
BR909005828A BR9005828A (pt) 1989-11-17 1990-11-16 Conjunto de aparelho de barbear pivotavel e conjunto para suportar um dispositivo de lamina tendo um gume cortante efetivo
HK151396A HK151396A (en) 1989-11-17 1996-08-08 Pivoting safety razor assembly

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